Re: [sleuthkit-users] What if a module fails to initialize

[Willi B. <wil...@gm...>]

Perhaps I've missed a menu item, but I don't remember seeing a way to
re-run the ingest process on a given case. Assuming that's true, I would
prefer to bail at the first opportunity.

If I'm using Autopsy during an investigation with a set of plugins, I've
decided to use them for a specific reason (otherwise they'd be disabled for
better performance). Therefore, if I spend a while waiting for processing
to complete, only to learn its in fact incomplete and the only way to
finish is to re-ingest, I'd be annoyed.

If there is a way to re-ingest a case, then a large warning dialog with a
quick fix/reconfigure button would be my second choice.

Willi


On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 1:44 PM, Alex Nelson <ajn...@cs...> wrote:

> I vote 1, because one faulty module should not prevent the other modules'
> results, which may take a long time, from doing their work.  (Please
> believe me that this is not commentary on other current events.)
>
> However, this requires the module framework have support for a results
> dependency graph.  This'll take some intelligent designer's time to get
> across gracefully to the end user if one module among many fails.  (I can
> say from experience that Make and Dot/GraphViz are not a simple solution.)
>
> How do later modules in a pipeline specify that they need the results of
> an earlier module?
>
> --Alex
>
>
> On Oct 7, 2013, at 13:26 , Nanni Bassetti <dig...@gm...> wrote:
>
> My vote is for the number 2 :-)
> bye
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